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Things worth knowing.
Short, practical pieces for everyone this sector touches: tenants, house-hunters, agencies, landlords and builders. No sales pitch, and nothing you need our software to act on.
What to Keep, and for How Long
Keeping everything forever feels safe and isn't. A retention position, meaning what you keep, why, and when it goes, is both a data protection duty and a filing system that works.
Choosing Property Management Software: What to Actually Test
A demo shows you a system working on somebody else's tidy data. Here is how to test one against yours, and the questions that reveal more than any feature list.
Tenant Handovers, Done Properly
Move-in and move-out are the same twenty minutes of work, done twice. Skipping it at the start is what makes the end expensive.
What Belongs in a Monthly Landlord Statement
A landlord statement has one job: to answer 'what did I earn, what was spent, and what am I owed?' without a phone call. Most statements answer the first and leave the rest implied.
Running a Billing Run Without Ruining Your Month
Billing a whole portfolio in one go is fast and unforgiving. The difference between a quiet month and a week of corrections is what happens in the ten minutes before you send.
Matching Payments to What They Settled
Money arrives with a name and an amount, and almost never with a reason. Reconciliation is the work of restoring the reason, and doing it weekly instead of yearly.